Mapping my creative journey and recording the discoveries made en-route.

Thursday, 20 October 2011

Bletchley Park Exhibition 2

In keeping with my theme, I want a faded, night time feel to this piece so I have tried some quilting ideas that use the same colours as the fabric and lettering and have tried to keep it simple. Each letter (symbol) is quilted and I want to suggest the effect of a searchlight piercing the gloom and flack shells bursting.
So far my experiments have been just lettering and searchlight. I have to try out flack ideas this week.

I have busted a gut in the last 2 days to try out techniques for flack. Quite a difficult concept to convey in fabric. My sample piece is a bit heavy, so I'm going to add a firey centre and remove more of the black voile. I wish I'd made the piece a little smaller! There is so much to do!

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About Me

I am a fabric adict. Its rare that I have more than a day away from doing something creative with fabric or thread, my passion for textiles has prompted me to set up this blog.
I have become an adict gradually over the years and now I have the time to devote to my adiction. I got here through the interest, patience, understanding and teaching of a number of talented women who nurtured my skills, fed my interest and gave praise and encouragement as I developed this lifelong interest. I'm so grateful to them for sharing and for helping me understand that to make progress one has to make mistakes first and then learn to put them right.
I am on a journey, beginning a voyage of discovery to develop my creativity and move my art forwards.

My Reading List - don't you just love to know what others read? This is now a rolling list

January 2014Michael Ridpath - Fatal Error

Alex Grey - The Bird that didn't SingOverviewI have never kept a list of everything I have read before - its quite fascinating to look back on. I was prompted to attempt the list because of a notebook belonging to my grandfather that I found when clearing my father's house. My grandfather had kept a list of his reading from 1909 to 1973 and he was a "serious" reader, reading in French, German, Hebrew and Greek as well as all the English classics and modern novels as they came out in the mid 20th century, but largely non-fiction. he was clearly a fascinating man and I am really sorry that I never got to know that side of him while he was alive.As you can see I can't match him, but he is an inspiration when I'm stuck and I am planning a greater diet of non-fiction in the new year. What this space.